Sunday, May 5, 2019

The Right to Counsel Coalition has organized a rally to protest Stellar Management as one of the "worst evictors" : taking hundreds of tenants to court in the zip codes that have Right to Counsel for low-income tenants. This includes our zip code: 10025.

Because tenants were generally represented, the majority were not evicted. Bringing hundreds of cases that Stellar could only win if tenants were NOT represented suggests an abuse of the Housing Court system.

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Ben Dulchin of the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development has posted an interesting article on ANHD's blog: What Do Landlords Talk About When They Talk About Rent Increase Loopholes?"Individual Apartment Improvement" rent increases are how landlords hope to "add value" to rental apartments. The unspoken but necessary step: pushing out the low-rent tenants.An excerpt is below, but it's worth reading the whole blogpost.

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This website includes links to many tenant resources as well as selected email postings from aff-hous@googlegroups.com, and information from the now-defunct website www.save-ml.org about Mitchell-Lama rentals.

But this is NOT meant to be legal advice. Please contact your (or your tenant association's) lawyer for that.